Tatterdemalion (noun)
tat-er-di-mal-ee-on
A person in tattered clothing; a shabby person.
1600–10; first written tatter-de-mallian and rhymed with Italian; tatter 1; -de-mallian. ?
Example sentences
“He was known as a tatterdemalion, but loved for his brilliant mind.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
